Generosity!

Thank you so much for your generosity in giving to help our adoptive family have a wonderful holiday this year! The children excitedly added gifts to our bin each day for the past few weeks. It was absolutely overflowing! There were so many that we could not even carry them all to the gym. Some had to be taken by golf cart to the gym for us. The children were smiling from ear to ear as it made us all feel so good to GIVE!



Math Workshop

On Wednesday, we participated in a math workshop to share with parents a math lesson and supporting activities. This lesson focused on developing good math facts. Playing games is an important part of our Everyday Mathematics program. Dice Roll Addition, Egg-carton Addition, and Two-Fisted Penny Addition were games and activities that the children participated in to practice math facts as part of our Math morning on Wednesday.




Everyday Mathematics also has great math games that we play on the computer. Here we were playing Penny Cup to work on math facts for sums of 20.


Surprise!

In the spirit of the month of December, we have been learning to practice giving of ourselves. In addition to the wonderful gifts that the children so happily brought for our "adoptive" family, we went to watch the 8th graders perform skits about generosity on Friday morning. Instead, we found out that WE were going to be the performers! The children worked in small groups with the 8th graders, planning and performing skits to define generosity and modeling giving of ourselves, rather than monetarily. Everyone had a great time!


Volunteers this week:

• Tuesday - Art - Sharon Cannella (12:05)
• Thursday - Library Check-out - Fai MacDougald (2:05)